How to Use equity capital in a Sentence

equity capital

noun
  • For starters, most of the debt and equity capital sources are from overseas.
    — Peter Grant, WSJ, 17 Oct. 2017
  • Its own central-bank governor reckons equity capital is taxed up to five times.
    — The Economist, 7 June 2018
  • At the time, Faure was global head of the legal team in charge of debt and equity capital markets.
    — Gaspard Sebag, Fortune, 4 June 2024
  • In other words, there is plenty of scope to replace dear equity capital with cheap debt capital.
    — The Economist, 17 Oct. 2019
  • The company raised $1 billion in equity capital and borrowed even more, but ran out of money.
    — Laurence Darmiento, Los Angeles Times, 11 Oct. 2024
  • The growing supply of private forms of equity capital is even more remarkable.
    — The Economist, 4 July 2019
  • In the run-up to the crisis, banks on average kept about 8 to 10% of their assets as equity capital.
    — Alan Greenspan, WSJ, 12 Oct. 2018
  • Hong Kong’s equity capital markets are perking up, after a punishing first half for what has long been one of the world’s largest venues for stock issuance.
    — Dave Sebastian, WSJ, 8 July 2022
  • James said the group now leads multiple calls a week to help members access equity capital to increase their service capacity.
    — Chauncey Alcorn, CNN, 9 June 2021
  • The purchase price is expected to be funded by a combination of equity capital from new and existing.
    — Evan Clark, WWD, 3 July 2024
  • Both firms are expected to directly access the debt and equity capital markets to fund their respective growth strategies.
    — Joe Cornell, Forbes, 11 Oct. 2021
  • Out of view for most of us, supermarkets are changing hands, with more transnational and private equity capital ownership.
    — Ramón Borges-Méndez, BostonGlobe.com, 12 Sep. 2023
  • Stricter regulation of European banks since the financial crisis has required that banks hold more equity capital than in the past.
    — Costas Paris, WSJ, 23 Sep. 2018
  • The fifth farm, in Baltimore, will be Gotham Greens’ biggest to date, and has raised $45 million in equity capital.
    — Laura Reiley, Washington Post, 19 Nov. 2019
  • In April 2025, the firm promoted Swain as co-head of its equity capital solutions group.
    — Shawn Tully, Fortune, 1 Nov. 2025
  • The amount of equity capital raised in London was up over 38% year-over-year—more than the next two biggest European exchanges combined.
    — Prarthana Prakash, Fortune Europe, 16 May 2024
  • The latter could include requiring money funds to be backed by equity capital in the way that banks are—although similar proposals have been rejected before.
    — Paul J. Davies, WSJ, 19 July 2021
  • The equity capital market team is instrumental in detecting the most opportune moments for assets sales, at times through block trades on secondary markets, the people said.
    — Min Jeong Lee, Fortune Asia, 10 May 2024
  • Revenue at the investment bank’s unit that houses advisory as well as debt and equity capital markets services rose 52% from a year earlier.
    — Myriam Balezou, Fortune Europe, 7 May 2024
  • Alphabet was already set to pull off the biggest equity capital markets transaction of all time at the previous $80 billion level.
    — Bloomberg, Mercury News, 3 June 2026
  • Net earnings from markets were up 130% from a year earlier, even though the business had only 3% more equity capital allocated to it.
    — Telis Demos, WSJ, 14 Oct. 2020
  • The partnership has access to $50 million in equity capital from family offices and high net worth investors to actualize its business plan.
    — Thania Garcia, Variety, 14 Oct. 2025
  • Entering the throes of the crisis as the smallest bank by market value of those five, Morgan Stanley took moves to bolster the bank’s equity capital by issuing more shares.
    — Michael Wursthorn, WSJ, 17 Jan. 2020
  • There have been two significant changes in the past year – one is the rapid adoption of digital services and the other is positive receptivity of the equity capital markets for new listings.
    — Jack McCullough, Forbes, 20 May 2021
  • Google parent Alphabet netted nearly $85 billion proceeds this month, in what was the biggest equity capital markets transaction ever, at the time.
    — Jason Ma, Fortune, 20 June 2026
  • The higher price target represents a much lower cost of debt/equity capital that the company and its peers in the net lease REITs group are benefiting from.
    — Tipranks.com Staff, CNBC, 13 Oct. 2024
  • The rental giant emerged from Chapter 11 bankruptcy in June, with restructuring and fresh equity capital having slashed its debt levels by 80%.
    — David Meyer, Fortune, 2 Nov. 2021
  • The project will rely on an initial $5 billion in equity capital from Blackstone, which will become the majority owner, according to a statement Monday.
    — Bloomberg, Mercury News, 19 May 2026
  • Wu and Rabois returned to the board alongside Nejatian’s hiring and invested $40 million of equity capital into the company.
    — Amanda Gerut, Fortune, 5 Oct. 2025
  • Benefits Of Bridge Loans Bridge loans can be useful for companies in a high-growth phase that are struggling to raise equity capital or obtain traditional bank financing.
    — Xan Myburgh, Forbes, 2 Oct. 2024

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